Two-time
Academy Award winner Denzel Washington directs and stars with Academy Award
winner Forest Whitaker in this powerful and deeply inspiring page from American
history that is based on a true story about Melvin Tolson and his champion 1935
debate club from the all African-American Wiley College in Texas. Washington
shines in a captivating performance as Tolson, a brilliant but politically motivated
debate team coach, professor, poet and labor organizer during a period of fierce
and often violent racial prejudice, who uses the power of words to transform
his group of underdog black college students into an historical powerhouse that
took on the Harvard elite in a famous David versus Goliath match up.

This
film is rated: PG-13
This is a Region 1 DVD (playable ONLY in Bermuda, Canada, the Cayman Islands,
United States and U.S. territories).